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A family friend, whose teenage child has recently said they are trans, contacted me over the weekend because their child had been sent a piece saying that trans was really a delusion. Needless to say, the piece originated from a right-wing Christian “think tank” who also oppose same-sex marriage (or, it seems, any same-sex relationships […]

I’m going to start by thinking about the parents of Leelah Alcorn, the Ohio teenager who took her own life at the tail end of 2014. Leelah lived in what is reported to be a conservative Christian family in a small town on the outskirts of Cincinnatti. In a note she had scheduled to be […]

The tabloid press have been remarkably silent regarding the outrage around the Lucy Meadows story. They reported her death with the usual deliberate misgenderings and pictures of her as male. Since then – nothing in the redtops. One tabloid journalist has put fingers to keyboard and blogged “an alternative view“. In it he quotes the […]

At the start of this week I sent out emails to those who had lodged cases on the TransDocFail survey that the GMC were interested in investigating. It does appear that some people are intending to pursue this path, and equally that some of those same people are terrified by it. However yesterday evening I […]

Monday’s vigil seemed to come from nowhere. It’s certainly nothing to do with Trans Media Watch. It’s strongly positioned as a vigil of respect, not as a vigil of protest, for which I’m relieved. I plan to be there, to show my respects to another trans person, harassed then monstered by a press who wouldn’t […]

The Prime Minister today surprisingly pulled out of cross-party talks over implementation of the Leveson Report. His resistance to statutory underpinning, unknown until Leveson actually reported, seems to have become core to his being. Stapling himself to cries of “freedom of the press” (which, as David Allen Green pointed out in his evidence to the […]

As I was walking out of the Trans Health Matters conference this afternoon, one doctor looked at me and asked “what are you doing to us, Helen?” I’d just delivered a presentation about the TransDocFail phenomenon (which was quickly pushed out of the news by the furore over Julie Burchill’s article) and had given a […]